Re:Rise and fall of our first startup, Epiclist
by stanreim on Saturday January 03, 2015 @03:20PM
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Hey guys, Stan here, co-founder of Epiclist! Thanks for the comments! @detaro, we have been running a be-weekly newsletter and integrated with social services. While it has increased retention, it was still hard to maintain it as you mention as well. Focusing on several cities to curate weekend getaways was really helpful to boost engagement in this cities, since people could discover experiences to do a trip within a day or two! I hope that someone can nail the "weekend getaways", which is a growing market in itself! Let me know if you have any other questions!
This was the first thing I wondered about their product as well, how would you "passively" consume the content others created? Some kind of integration with normal content channels (weekly e-mail, matched to personal interests, or the option to follow individual feeds of others) would be necessary for me to keep interacting with it. Just another app I might look at every few months and go "hey, this was cool", browse a bit and forget again.
How to make money from it is a whole other problem, I didn't get from the article what the plan was for that.